What is the Campaign about?

Welsh language information

The Family Arts Campaign is a national Sector Support Organisation funded by Arts Council England to raise family engagement with arts and culture.

Since our beginnings in 2012, we have focused on three main areas of work:

Increasing the amount and range of artistic work available to families
Increasing the quality of experience for families
Improving marketing to reach more families

We are here to support National Portfolio Organisations, museums, libraries, community groups, individuals, and anyone else looking to better connect families with arts and culture.

You can take part by signing up to the free Family Arts Standards and Age-Friendly Standards quality-marks, by attending training and events, or accessing our online resources library. You can also promote all of your family and age-friendly events for free as part of our Fantastic for Families campaign.

Who is running the Campaign?

We are a cross-sector and cross-artform initiative steered by a consortium of ten organisations and trade bodies. Our lead partner organisation is The Albany.

The campaign is overseen by a Project Board:

Helen Featherstone	Deputy Director, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Cassie Chadderton	Head of UK Theatre & Membership Development, UK Theatre
Charlotte Jones	Chief Executive, Independent Theatre Council
Cath Hume	Executive Director, Arts Marketing Association
Robert O’Dowd	Chief Executive, Rose Theatre Kingston
Gavin Barlow	Chief Executive/Artistic Director, The Albany
Matthew Swann	Chief Executive, City of London Sinfonia
Mark Pemberton	Director, Association of British Orchestras
Katy Spicer	Chief Executive & Artistic Director, efdss
Anne Torreggiani	Executive Director, The Audience Agency
Karla Barnacle-Best	CEO, Discover Children’s Story Centre
Paula Graham-Gazzard	National Coordinator, Contemporary Visual Arts Network
Helen Laws	Head of Industry and Artist Support

Central co-ordination is led by a small team:

Anna Dever	Head of Campaign
Clair Donnelly	Project Manager

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Local Family Arts Networks

One of the key Family Arts Campaign objectives is to enable different local issues to be reflected and ensure that all families wherever they are in the country can access high quality family friendly arts activities.

We want to provide support to local networks, whether old or new, thereby establishing a national web of Local Family Arts Networks. We have designed this to be as light touch as possible whilst ensuring that the networks can increase their reach to engage with families and offer a range of different experiences and opportunities.

We’ve found that a sharing of capacity and skills can help achieve great things and that being part of an official group of organisations can strengthen existing relationships with local organisations. Our Networks also work together in order to access funding sources that might not have previously been available to them as solo organisations.